Parliamentary Newspaper 1645 A joining through the counties of Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Hereford by the people was forced upon them. As in other counties the Civil War had torn away the fabric of civility. Demands made by the people of the Counties not of Parliamentary or King were put to the warring sides. Both sides took issue with these risings of the generality, for they were a third force. Without warrant from either side they saw fit to show their strength a

Neuters neutrals and waverers, is a term used with broadness in meaning and had manifested itself by many in language to describe the imposition of many at the outbreak of the English Revolution . The language used to label is decided on many occasions by ones opposing side or sides in an argument. In a war both opposing sides of that war can agree a dislike or a chance to recruit where neuters and waverers are concerned. Indeed, a Puritan cry from the pulpit through the Engl

Anti Fracking protest in Balcombe 2013 The insufferable, insolent, arbitrary power that hath bin used amongest us, contrary to all our ancient knowne lawes, or ordinances of parliament, upon our persons and estates by imprisoning our persons, imposing of somes money, light horses and dragoons and exacting of loanes by some particular persons stept into authority whoe have delegated their power to men of sordid condition whose wills have ben lawes and commands over our persons

A meeting of heads and a call for rendezvous. In numbers of mass, the Clubmen of Dorset, Wilts and Hampshire saw a need to form across County a mutual association. A strike on one was a strike on the generality. Where to gather and speak of their grievances was not in question, fear of legality of their actions by the local governance which they were very much a part of, was not an issue, and far from thought. The illegality to gather was only used later by Parliament for mak

' Back Cover of the 1st Clash LP, The Clash Growing up and as a teenager through the late 70s early 80s, with the dawning of the Thatcher era, The Clash so titled their 1st album as observed by them, the word clash was used to great extent in the news. An ideological, and in many ways a physical Civil War was playing out, minus the cannonball and powder-flash. The image from the back cover of the 1st Clash album showing a scene from the Notting Hill riots of 76 was very much

It "Alienated those whose hearts were best affected to the Kings service". The Earl Clarendon wrote in his memoirs when referring to plundering by troops quartered . The inhabitants of towns, villages and parishes affected by troops through the English Revolution can be seen with the plight imposed on them by Royalist troops in South Brent ( Brent Knoll) in March 1645. Brent Knoll in Somerset, known as South Brent in 1645. Colonel Ayscough rode into South Brent with a troop o

Clubmen banner and Levellers banner held in Burford on Levellers Day 2016. "Rotten-hearted nauseous Neutrals" was the description given by contemporary biographer John Vicars of the Western Clubmen in his accounts of Parliamentary activities in "England's Parliamentary Chronicle 1645-1646". This colourful take on the Clubmen is nothing out the norm with regards to how warring factions within a war and especially a Civil War deal with a neutralist party. Weathercocks is a term